Obviously, former District Department of Transportation director Gabe Klein was doing something right -- today, Transportation Nation is reporting that he has been chosen by new Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel to run the Windy City's Department of Transportation. Klein, who left the D.C. government in early December during a sea change in agency leadership after Mayor Vince Gray defeated Adrian Fenty for the city's mayoralty, will reportedly start next month. more ›

Welcome back to the Commencement Speaker Scouting Report! Last time, we brought you news of Gwen Ifill, Vernon Jordan and New York City police commissioner Raymond W. Kelly all heading to District universities to dispense platitudes and receive honorary degrees. Now it's on to the rest of D.C.'s illustrious institutes of higher learning. Ready, set, graduate! more ›

MONDAY: Cullen Murphy, the Atlantic’s managing editor, will be at Politics and Prose to talk about his new book Are We Rome? Murphy is of course referring to spreading corruption in Washington, our imperialist tendencies and the outsourcing of government work to private contractors. Personally, we'd rather read a book comparing our government with a different empire, but we won't hold our breath on that one. 7 p.m. TUESDAY: Dancer and award-winning actress Victoria Rowell... more ›

TUESDAY Tonight, political gadfly and Huffington Post founder Arianna Huffington discusses On Becoming Fearless...in Love, Work, and Life. With her kind of money, we’d sleep better at night, too. Olssons Books & Records, 418 7th St. NW., at 12:30 p.m. WEDNESDAY Rahm Emanuel and Bruce Reed hold forth at Politics and Prose tonight, discussing The Plan, which we’re guessing is the long awaited word from Democratic lawmakers that they’ve finally had an idea, and not... more ›